One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 17573

Order to supply seed wheat for sowing TM 17573Oxyrhynchos14. Nov. 99

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Fragmentary order to grain officials to issue 3 1/2 artabas of seed wheat, at 1 artaba per aroura, to a farmer for sowing land in the current year, to be repaid from the new harvest with the land dues. It was written at Oxyrhynchus on 14 November 99, under Trajan.

In English machine translation

[... lines lost ...] [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ...usis in the name of Thatres (?), son of Diogenes, mother Tanechotis, [from the (holding) of] Tarouthinos and Parmenion, 1 aroura [...] ... 3 1/2 [arouras], being sown in the [present 3rd] year with wheat, they spending per [aroura] 1 artaba of wheat as seed, the total of wheat, clean, unadulterated, free of barley, sieved, [by the] public measure, 3 1/2 artabas, which they shall also deposit [into the] land, under the supervision of the usual officials, nothing being deducted for a debt or for anything else, and from the new crop they shall repay the same amount together with the public dues on the land, from whom also receive the appropriate receipt in duplicate, of which you shall give one back to me. Year 3 of Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus, month of Neos Sebastos 17.

Neos Sebastos was an honorific month name equivalent to Hathyr. The opening, including the issuing official and addressees, is lost, and the farmer's name is partly restored.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Order to Supply Seed - Corn). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

p.oxy.57.3908

Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 14. Nov. 99 · Oxyrhynchos

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